RESEARCH CLUSTER IN URBAN INDIGENOUS WELLBEING
Gabrielle Legault
RESEARCH LEAD
Assistant Professor, Community, Culture and Global Studies, Irving K Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UBC Okanagan
This research cluster team is responding to urban Indigenous community needs through a holistic approach to spiritual, mental, emotional and physical health.
ABSTRACT
Guided by principles of an Indigenous relational approach, this team is committed to respectfully working with, and responding to, Urban Indigenous Community identified research priorities. Team members have experience and expertise in community-led Indigenous research methodologies, Indigenous health, health promotion, identity and belonging, cultural safety, land-based healing, population health, geography, creative practices, occupational therapy, and mental wellness.
The team received a UBCO Cluster of Research Excellence award in 2021.
UBCO Clusters of Research Excellence are funded by the Eminence Program, which was established in 2017.
RESEARCH TEAM MEMBERS
Sarah de Leeuw
Professor, Northern Medical Program, University of Northern British Columbia
Tania Willard
Tania Willard, Assistant Professor, Creative Studies, Visual Arts, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, UBC Okanagan
Skye Barbic
Associate Professor, Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, UBC Vancouver
Peter Hutchinson
Peter Hutchinson is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public and Population Health at UBC Vancouver.
Elder Bill McKenna
Bill is Secwepemc and a member of the Stswecem’c Xget’tem First Nation.
Shawn Wilson
Associate Professor, Department of Community, Culture and Global Studies, Irving K Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UBC Okanagan
Alanaise Ferguson
Alanaise Ferguson is an Indigenous scientist-practitioner and educator in Counselling Psychology.
Mimi Mutahi
Mimi Mutahi is a Kenyan living and working on the traditional, unceded, ancestral territory of the Syilx Peoples.
Karlyn Olsen
Karlyn Olsen is a settler born on the unceded territory of the Syilx, Sinixt and Ktunaxa Peoples.
NEWS AND EVENTS
Students use virtual reality to transform stroke recovery
Psychology, computer science students incorporate VR, AR into brain injury rehabilitation
Do two puffs equal a bong hit? Research aims to find out
UBC Okanagan team standardizes dosing with the Index of Cannabis Equivalency
UBCO gut health research moves from lab to real world
New technology will leverage personal gut microbiome to treat conditions
Future of inter-community transportation to be explored
UBCO professor teams up with tourism and transit agencies to examine options
Contact
Dr. Donna Kurtz
Email Donna.Kurtz@ubc.ca
Gabrielle Legault
Email Gabrielle.Legault@ubc.ca
UBC Okanagan